champion godfather

Chapter 761
Since Ibisevic was a later target, and because of his poor performance in the latest season, his transfer fee has shrunk significantly. Therefore, the Forest team only spent the most expensive striker position. Fifteen million euros, roughly £500 million.Counting the expenses of Bentley and Fernandez, and later adding an additional £400 million to the £500 million transfer budget, there is still 500 million left in the transfer budget.

What is 600 million enough for?

Twain still decided to supplement the right back.The position of right back has become a common pain all over the world, and now a good right back is really hard to find.Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos, Barcelona's Daniel Alves, Inter Milan's Maicon, Arsenal's Sarnia, etc. are all top players in the world, but such players as Nottingham Forest are definitely bought not coming.

Twain could only start with younger players who were not as famous as them.

After screening, he decided to target Monaco defender Nicolas N'Koulou (Nicolas N'Koulou).

这位20岁的喀麦隆小将已经在摩纳哥打了一个赛季的主力了。07-08赛季他去法甲球队摩纳哥试训，得到了摩纳哥方面的认可，和他签定了合同。第二个赛季他就在摩纳哥一线队打上了比赛。随后的09-10赛季他更是成为了主力。

Nkuru is capable of both positions of right back and center back. As a center back, his height of 1.8 meters is a bit of a fly in the ointment, but he does a good job at the right back position.When he represented the Cameroon Olympic team, he also played a guest goalkeeper once, so he can be regarded as a "all-rounder".

In fact, Nkuru was noticed by Nottingham Forest scouts two years ago, and the Forest team asked him to come to England for trial training.But at that time he chose to go to Ligue [-] to try his luck instead of accepting the Forest team's invitation.

Nottingham Forest is not the only one who is optimistic about his future.Wenger's Arsenal has always been at the forefront in the search for young talents from all over the world, and they have long been interested in Nkuru.

The two clubs started at the same time this summer, and Nottingham Forest took the lead because they had contact with Nkuru before.

Monaco knows that its small temple cannot keep players like Nkuru, so instead of forcing them to keep them, it is better to sell them at a good price as soon as possible.Nkuru also expressed his desire to play in the top European leagues, and Ligue [-] can no longer satisfy him.

They compared the asking prices of Nottingham Forest and Arsenal, and decided to increase the price of Nkuru to 1000 to [-] million pounds.

Arsenal rejected their return price. In Wenger's eyes, it is crazy that a player who is only 20 years old and has not proved himself in the European competition dares to sell for 1000 or 1000 million pounds.After all, Nkuru is not the kind of player who is particularly talented, like Messi, Bo Yang, and Wilshere.Paying [-] to [-] million for such a player is definitely not worthwhile.

Tony Twain also rejected this offer.But he made another offer in the past - 800 million pounds.

Monaco thought it was too cheap, and they returned £100 million.

So the Forest team reported 900 million.This time it was Alan Adams who flew to Monaco himself with the offer.

After some haggling, Monaco agreed to sell Nkuru for £950million.

Arsenal didn't know where they heard the news, and they also offered 950 million pounds, wanting to snatch Nkuru.

Tang En was furious about this - he thought that Monaco had deliberately leaked the news in order to continue raising the price.But I didn't expect that Arsenal was also very smart, so they only paid 950 million, and they didn't do anything more.

Tang En was worried that Nkuru would choose Arsenal instead of himself.Since Nottingham Forest was promoted to the Premier League, he has confronted Arsenal many times in the transfer market. He has ruined Wenger's good deeds, but Wenger has also robbed many people he valued.

But this time, he won Wenger.

Nkuru knows and is more familiar with Nottingham Forest, not to mention that this is not the first time Nottingham Forest has looked for him.At the beginning, he almost became a member of the Forest team.Emotionally, he is more inclined to Nottingham Forest than Arsenal, which is famous for reusing young people.

Nkuru is a person who attaches great importance to emotions. Tony Twain played the emotional card and finally managed to get Nkuru to sign the contract.

Then the two clubs announced that the 20-year-old right-back Nicholas Nkuru would transfer to Nottingham Forest at a price of 950 million pounds, signing a five-year contract.

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While introducing players, Nottingham Forest is also selling people out.After all, one way to control costs is to control the salary budget. If there are too many first-team members, just paying salaries will be a big burden for the club.

Sun Jihai was the first to leave the team.Before the end of the season, Tang En had already greeted him in advance. Even if the contract expired, the Forest team would not renew his contract.I hope he can quickly find a new home when his one-year contract expires.

Sun Jihai is a sensible person, and he also knows that he has no strength to stay in such a team that aims to be a champion.He really wants to stay in the Premier League, but the reality is cruel.Until July, all rumored Premier League clubs interested in him were only rumors.

The agent told him that there are two paths in front of him now, one is to return to China to play football, and to retire in the last two years.The second is to lower the standard, go to the British Championship to play for two more seasons, and then retire.

Sun Jihai didn't plan to return to China, even if it was the invitation from his former club, the Dalian team that trained him, he also refused.He chose to go to the British Championship and signed a two-year contract with Sheffield United.When his contract with Sheffield United expires, he is about to turn 35 years old. If he is in good condition and can guarantee a stable number of appearances, Sheffield United will renew his contract with him for another year.

In order to get Sun Jihai, Sheffield United paid a transfer fee of 100 million pounds for the Forest team.Although Sun Jihai is 32 years old, he is also a "championship player" who has won two European championships and one league championship with the team. In Asia, he is the Asian player who has won the most top honors in Europe.Park Ji-sung is second at Manchester United.

Chimbonda once thought that Nkuru's arrival would lead to his departure.Although he just renewed his contract with the Forest team.But this is just a means to prevent players from leaving on a free transfer after the contract expires.Tang En took the initiative to find him after training one day, had a private conversation with him, and dispelled the doubts in his mind.

Dunn told Zimbonda that no matter what, during the contract period, he was still a member of Nottingham Forest, and the team needed his experience and defensive ability.After all, Nkuru is still young, just a rotation player.

Twain Zimbonda's change of attitude originated from last season.The team is not doing well recently, but Chimbonda's performance is amazing.His stable performance as a right back is the guarantee that the team can finally get fourth in the league. Rafinha had some injuries last season and his attendance rate was not high. Most of the time he relied on Zimbonda alone.The aging Chimbonda's level did not drop as fast as Tang En thought, and he maintained a high level last season.

Perhaps because of the right attitude, Tang En looked at Zimbunda with new admiration.

People say that a friend in adversity is a friend.In the team's most difficult seasons of 07-08 and 08-09, Chimbonda helped the team with his stable performance.Now is the time for the team to pay back Chimbonda.The team gave him a new contract last winter. This summer, Twain told him that he could play here until his retirement. When that contract expired, Zimbonda would not be able to continue playing.

Twain is doing something with a long-term goal - he wants to cultivate the players' sense of belonging and loyalty to the team as much as possible.Unless it's someone he wants to drive away, he hopes these players can still have affection for this team when they are old.Just like every other big team, they have a special culture of keeping their own people.

Dunn hopes that a Paul Maldini, a Ryan Giggs, and a Gerrard will come out of Nottingham Forest in a few years time...

Apart from Sun Jihai, Martin Petrov is the second Forest player to leave in the summer.

Twain spent 1000 million euros plus a player exchange to bring in Ibisevic, and the player who was exchanged was Martin Petrov.

Hoffenheim are interested in Petrov and Nottingham Forest are interested in Ibisevic.The two sides found common ground in this regard.In fact, this was also the main content of the meeting between Tang En and Roterhaus.

Martin Petrov is prepared to leave Forest and going to Hoffenheim would not be bad for him either.Now Hoffenheim has got rid of the hat of "promoted horse" and has become a mid-range team in the Bundesliga.Playing for that kind of team is not a disgrace to him.What's more, the boss of Hoffenheim is rich and can meet his requirements in terms of treatment.

After reaching an agreement between the club and the club, the player also made an agreement with the team.The transaction was successfully concluded.

Nicholas Milan and Victor Moses As mentioned before, they were loaned out by the club to two newly promoted Premier League teams - Southampton and Norwich.

Twain hoped that they could work hard in an unfamiliar team relying on their own strength, gain valuable experience and exercise, so as to grow into the players he needed.

Like them there is Adriano Mok.He was loaned to another Premier League club Blackburn by the club.Since selling Bentley, Blackburn has always wanted to find another player on the right.They were very interested in Mork with outstanding skills. Twain agreed to Blackburn's request to loan Mork on the principle of allowing this young man to receive more training and see more games.

And Mork himself is no longer the arrogant young man who disliked going out on loan and playing in the reserve team.He also believes that at present, going out to play on loan is the best way to improve his level, and he agreed to go to Blackburn to play for a season.

This summer was basically like this. Tang En didn't clean up the lineup because there was no need for it.His players performed very well last season, otherwise he would not have the opportunity to return to Europe after a year.The players introduced are only to supplement the slightly lacking strength in several positions, such as two wingers and forwards.The overall structure of the team has been preserved, which is the main reason why Twain is full of confidence in the new season.These people in the team are the players he is most familiar with. He knows the characteristics of each of them and knows how to make good use of them.

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Another good news that is no less than the introduction of new players is that Van Nistelrooy has finally been able to return to the court after a long recovery period after surgery!

The Dutchman was injured in the No.2008 round of the league on November 11, 29. Nottingham Forest beat West Bromwich Albion 15:3 at home. moon.He didn't return to the team until January 1, but he was still battling knee injuries most of the time, and he never recovered. Twain didn't dare to play him again, and he didn't even play in the reserve team. let him go.I was worried that his body would not be able to withstand the toss anymore.

Born on July 1976, 7, he is just 1 years old now.

One year and seven months after he was injured and left the team, he finally played again and came off the bench in Forest's warm-up match with the Celtics, the Soviet Super League powerhouse.

Tang En gave him three and 10 minutes. Although he didn't score, Tang En and all the coaching staff were not concerned about Van Nistelrooy's performance, but his knee.After the game, Fleming did a physical examination for Ruud van Nistelrooy and found that there was nothing wrong with the operated knee, and everyone felt relieved.

Tang En, who was in a good mood, even joked with the reporters who interviewed him on the second day after the game: "Our fourth signing this summer has been confirmed!"

When the reporters asked in surprise who the fourth player to come to the Forest team was, Dunn laughed and revealed the mystery: "Luther van Nistelrooy!"

Van Nistelrooy started the game against League One side Walshal and scored a penalty.Let Forest rejoice for the fans.

Looks like things are going in a good direction.

Dunn often joked with Ruud van Nistelrooy during training, as if it didn't seem like a relationship between the head coach and the players.

The players who recently joined the Forest team were still a little surprised, but the old players would tell them with a smile: "This is a normal thing, the boss is such a person."

But they were only half right.

Tang En was so close to Van Nistelrooy, the other half was because his relationship with Van Nistelrooy was indeed better than that of ordinary players.There are quite a few players in the forest team now, but for Tony Twain, there are not many players who have the memories of his two lifetimes.

Hierro, Albertini and Beckham, Van der Sar and Ayala who have left are all counted.Ruud van Nistelrooy is still in the team.

It's as if the old friends around him originally made an appointment to travel together, but after walking on the road, he patronizes to enjoy the scenery along the way, and when he thinks of the friends around him, he turns around and finds that the person still following him This one is left.

That's an emotion that's hard to explain to someone else.It's not that I pay the money and you come to play football for me.

Van Nistelrooy and Nottingham Forest still have a two-year contract, and Dunn hopes that Van Nistelrooy can renew his contract for another year after the contract expires.He will be 37 years old by then.

After retiring at Nottingham Forest, Twain must give Van Nistelrooy the best farewell game, just like what he promised Albertini back then.

He didn't want that day to come, but he looked forward to it.

(End of this chapter)